TL;DR A South Dakota jury confirmed that Stan’s, Inc. sold Calvin Berwald calf starter feed contaminated with a toxic antibiotic called monensin — and then awarded Berwald $0 in damages, deciding the poison didn’t cause the deaths. Berwald’s dairy lost…
Corporate Accountability | ERISA | Health Insurance They Denied the Transplant. He Died. They Kept the Money. PSA Airlines and its insurance partners denied a 27-year-old flight attendant the heart transplant that would have saved his life, then fought his…
TL;DR Christine Boyer told jail staff she had congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, cancer, and less than a year to live; she was dead within 24 hours of being booked. Advanced Correctional Healthcare (ACH), the private company paid to…
TL;DR IBM fired Elizabeth Stafford in June 2018 and buried her age discrimination case inside a confidential forced arbitration agreement she had to sign to receive her severance. Stafford won her age discrimination claim, an arbitrator ruled in her favor…
TL;DR James Kimmons, a call center worker with cataracts in both eyes, asked Charter Communications for a schedule shift two hours earlier so he could drive home before dark on his one-hour commute from Racine to Milwaukee. Charter gave him…
Worker Privacy • Biometric Data • Illinois Supreme Court Your Fingerprint. Their Profit. Zero Permission. White Castle scanned workers’ fingerprints hundreds of times without consent, racked up what could be $17 billion in legal exposure, and then asked a court…
Labor Law / Wage Theft / Luxury Retail Dressed Up as Managers, Paid Like Workers, Robbed Like Both EvilCorporations.com | Investigative Labor Desk TL;DR Dover Street Market New York, one of the world’s most exclusive luxury retailers, labeled its floor…
TL;DR Chase Bank allowed a woman named Jazzmen Brumfield to drain $47,383.47 (enough to cover a year’s worth of groceries for four families) from a court-controlled “blocked account” containing a dead man’s estate funds — and handed it all to…
TL;DR The Law: In 2018, voters in Anaheim, California, passed a Living Wage Ordinance (LWO) requiring hospitality employers who benefit from a “City Subsidy” to pay a higher minimum wage. The Deal: A 1996 financial agreement obligated the City of…
TL;DR Virginia Tech fired a long-term employee named John Massey after he had surgery for a double hernia and took just ten days of medical leave. Massey sued under the Rehabilitation Act, which protects workers with disabilities from retaliation, but…